Clinical care in hepatocellular carcinoma: A mixed methods assessment of experiences and challenges of oncology professionals by Ginny Jacobs, Deborah A. Boyle, Hashem B. El‐Serag, Robert J. Lewandowski, Stacey M. Stein, Patrice Lazure, Pam McFadden

“…Methods A mixed‐methods approach was used to identify practice gaps and clinical barriers experienced by US‐based medical oncologists, hepatologists, oncology physician assistants, oncology nurse practitioners, and interventional radiologists involved in HCC care. …”
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Clinician perspectives on strategies to improve patient maternal immunization acceptability in obstetrics and gynecology practice settings by Paula M. Frew, Laura A. Randall, Fauzia Malik, Rupali J. Limaye, Andrew Wilson, Sean T. O'Leary, Daniel Salmon, Meghan Donnelly, Kevin Ault, Matthew Z. Dudley, Vincent L. Fenimore, Saad B. Omer

“…We conducted in-depth interviews with 24 providers, both healthcare providers (e.g., physicians, nurse practitioners, midwives) and practice managers, from urban and suburban ob-gyn practices in Georgia and Colorado about their immunization attitudes, practices, and patient experiences. …”
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“You're never really off time”: Healthcare providers' interpretations of optimal timing for HPV vaccination by Nora B. Henrikson, Leah Tuzzio, Melissa B. Gilkey, Annie-Laurie McRee

“…Participants were physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants in Minnesota (n = 27) and in Washington (n = 17) interviewed in 2012 and 2014 respectively. …”
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Is Video Laryngoscopy the Optimal Tool for Successful Intubation in a Neonatal Simulation Setting? A Single-Center Experience by Iram Musharaf, Sibasis Daspal, John Shatzer

“…Group 1 included pediatric residents; group 2 respiratory therapists and transport nurses; and group 3 neonatal nurse practitioners and physicians working in neonatology. …”
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Women’s views on content and delivery methods for interventions to improve preconception health: a qualitative exploration by Michael P. Daly, Ruth R. Kipping, James White, Julia Sanders

“…Semi-structured, in-depth interviews were conducted to explore their views on seven candidate delivery methods for preconception health interventions: general practitioners (GPs), nurse practitioners, pharmacists, social media, personal texts and emails, pregnancy tests, and health education in schools. …”
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Patient and Clinician Stakeholder Perspectives on a Patient Portal Questionnaire Eliciting Illness and Treatment Understanding and Core Health-Related Values by William E. Rosa, Jaime Gilliland, Meghan McDarby, Judith E. Nelson, Anjali V. Desai, Andrew S. Epstein

“…Clinicians were mostly physicians (50%), nurse practitioners (33%), and registered nurses (17%), with two-thirds having >15 years of experience in their specialty. …”
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What should accountable care organizations learn from the failure of health maintenance organizations? A theory based systematic review of the literature by Amir Alishahi Tabriz, Elham Nouri, Huyen T Vu, Van T. Nghiem, Brandt Bettilyon, Pooriya Gholamhoseyni, Nazanin Kiapour

“…Conclusion: ACOs should set realistic goals, align the incentives for physicians and hospitals via shared savings, use non-physician providers such as nurse practitioners, invest on health information technology, practice patient centered approach, make provider and patients accountable, use efficient management methods and improve care coordination.…”
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High Medicaid Nursing Homes: Organizational and Market Factors Associated With Financial Performance by Robert Weech-Maldonado PhD, Justin Lord PhD, Rohit Pradhan PhD, Ganisher Davlyatov PhD, Neeraj Dayama MD, MBA, Shivani Gupta PhD, Larry Hearld PhD

“…Higher financial performing facilities are characterized as having nurse practitioners/physician assistants, more beds, higher occupancy rate, higher Medicare and Medicaid census, and being for-profit and located in less competitive markets. …”
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Antimicrobial stewardship: Prescribing across the primary care health professions by Samantha A. Hollingworth, Treasure McGuire, Mieke Van Driel, Nelufa Begum, Pauline J. Ford, Glenda Hawley, Laurence J. Walsh

“…Abstract We examined the patterns of antibiotic prescribing by medical and non‐medical prescribers (dentists, nurse practitioners, and midwives) in Australia. We explored trends in the dispensed use of antibiotics (scripts and defined daily dose [DDD] per 1000 population/day) by Australian prescribers over the 12‐year period, 2005–2016. …”
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Clinical Application of Modified Burns Wean Assessment Program Scores at First Spontaneous Breathing Trial in Weaning Patients from Mechanical Ventilation by Eun Suk Jeong, Kwangha Lee

“…The m-BWAP score at first SBT was obtained by a critical care nursing practitioner. Results: A total of 103 subjects were included in this study. …”
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Revitalizing Broken Dreams: First Year Female Student Nurses’ Perceptions Regarding Their Decision to Join Nursing as a Career by Pir Bux Jokhio, Musrat Fatima, Husan Bano Channer, Ghulam Abbas Panhwar, Abdul Rahim Mangrio

“…A big opportunity falls on the shoulders of the Institute specially and teaching faculty, in general, to continuously support student nurses as they reenergize themselves to grow as professional and ethical nurse practitioners in the coming days.…”
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Hepatitis A and B vaccination in adults at risk: A survey of US healthcare providers’ attitudes and practices by Oscar Herrera-Restrepo, Kimberly Davis, Carolyn Sweeney, Eric Davenport, Parinaz Ghaswalla, Philip O. Buck

“…This cross-sectional, web-based survey of 400 US HCPs, which included nurse practitioners and family medicine, internal medicine, infectious disease, emergency department, and gastroenterology physicians, assessed HCPs’ attitudes and practices regarding the ACIP recommendations for adult patients at risk for hepatitis disease. …”
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Provider Perspectives on Fertility and Fertility Preservation Discussions Among Women With Cystic Fibrosis by Jessica Corcoran PhD, CRNP, CPNP-PC, Caitlin Campbell PhD, RN, Sigrid Ladores PhD, RN, PNP, CNE, FAAN

“…Twenty CF healthcare providers were interviewed including nurses, nurse practitioners, social workers, and dieticians among other disciplines. …”
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Community-Based HIV and Viral Hepatitis Fellowship Evaluation: Results from a Qualitative Study by Philip Bolduc, Philip G. Day, Bittie Behl-Chadha, Melissa Karapanos, Vanessa Carson-Sasso, E. Hatheway Simpson, Scott Hebert

“…Purpose: The UMass Chan Medical School/New England AIDS Education and Training Center Community-Based HIV and Viral Hepatitis Fellowship was launched in 2014 to train physicians and nurse practitioners to become experts in outpatient management of HIV, hepatitis B and C, and latent tuberculosis. …”
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Exploring virtual care clinical experience from non-physician healthcare providers (VCAPE) by Heather Braund, Nancy Dalgarno, Benjamin Ritsma, Ramana Appireddy

“…Forty non-physician healthcare providers from local hospitals, community, and home care settings in Kingston, ON, Canada, participated and included nurse practitioners, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, psychologists, registered dietitians, social workers, and speech-language pathologists. …”
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Improvement in Timing of Antibiotic Administration by Using a Prophylactic Antibiotic Record Form by Sung-Ching Pan, Hsin-Yun Sun, Jou-Wei Lin, Ching Lin, Tai-Shuan Lai, Shan-Chwen Chang

“…Using the form developed, nurse practitioners recorded the timing of prophylactic antibiotic administration, antibiotics used, and treatment duration for patients undergoing three types of clean operations (total hip replacement, total knee replacement, thyroidectomy) and one type of clean-contaminated operation (hemorrhoidectomy). …”
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Management of Pre-eclampsia and Eclampsia: A Simulation by Cynthia Abraham, Natalya Kusheleva

“…We recommend that eclampsia simulations occur in a laboratory and in situ on the labor and delivery floor with interprofessional team members including obstetricians, nurses, anesthesiologists, emergency and family medicine physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants.…”
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Can a Trial of Motivational Lifestyle Counseling be Effective for Controlling Childhood Obesity and the Associated Cardiometabolic Risk Factors? by Roya Kelishadi, Mohammad Malekahmadi, Mahin Hashemipour, Mehrnaz Soghrati, Mojgan Soghrati, Parisa Mirmoghtadaee, Shohreh Ghatrehsamani, Parinaz Poursafa, Noushin Khavarian

“…We suggest that expanding the roles of non-physician clinicians such as nurse practitioners can help to increase the amount of time available for such services.…”
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The problem is obtaining knowledge: a qualitative analysis of provider barriers and accelerators to rapid adoption of new treatment in a public health emergency by Stuart H. Williams, Megan D. McFarlane, Mary Giammarino, Jamie Oleksa

“…Through a series of guided interviews with health care providers, primarily physicians or nurse practitioners that were responsible for referring COVID-19 patients, we extracted tools, processes, or other mechanisms (accelerators) and barriers to validate against our DoI framework and fill the gap regarding emergency situations. …”
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Barriers and facilitators associated with implementing interventions to support oral anticancer agent adherence in academic and community cancer center settings. by Benyam Muluneh, Michele A Muir, James Bernard Collins, Darrian Proco, Emily Mackler, Ashley Leak Bryant, William A Wood, Michael Tilkens, Jeffrey S Reichard, Matthew Foster, Justin Gatwood, Stephanie B Wheeler, Leah L Zullig, Jennifer Elston Lafata

“…We used purposive sampling to identify clinicians (physicians, pharmacists, nurse practitioners, nurses) and administrators (leadership from medicine, pharmacy, and nursing) who delivered care and/or oversee care delivery for patients with chronic leukemia prescribed an OAA.…”
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